G06F 16/1744
Using compression
Official title: {using compression, e.g. sparse files}
G06F16/1744 (Using compression) appears on 1,141 US grants and 1,219 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Selective synchronization of content items in a content management system22 Sep 2026US 12,743,397 B2Dropbox, Inc.
- Reading compressed data directly into an in-memory store22 Sep 2026US 12,743,447 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Efficient embedding table storage and lookup15 Sep 2026US 12,737,341 B2Google Inc.
- Database aware, space efficient, high performance, snapshots on hyper-scale distributed storage8 Sep 2026US 12,730,776 B2Oracle International Corporation
- Methods and systems for archiving file system data stored by a networked storage system1 Sep 2026US 12,724,741 B2NetApp, Inc.
- Log compression and recovery1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300230 A1International Business Machines Corporation
- Method for compressing and decompressing log files and an information technology system24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288680 A1Mercedes-Benz Group AG
- System, information processing apparatus, and method24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288911 A1
- Compaction method and device for sorted strings table files10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267827 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Compressed signal propagation pipeline3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259859 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Capacity forecasting for a deduplicating storage system752US 8,751,463 B1EMC Corporation · 2014
- Data collection system having reconfigurable data collection terminal490US 8,851,383 B2Hand Held Products, Inc. · 2014
- Method and apparatus for optimizing data storage273US 8,996,480 B2International Business Machines Corporation · 2015
- Data storage management for network interconnected processors265US 5,537,585 AAvail Systems Corporation · 1996
- Weakly synchronized garbage collection and compaction for aggregated, replicated object stores223US 9,396,202 B1Google Inc. · 2016